Hello, I'm Bob Rohr from IBM Global Learning Services. Today my colleague Jim Brown will take you through our sixth free online course. As of this recording we are rapidly approaching our two hundred thousandth student, which means you may possibly be part of the largest web learning event ever.
We have used IBM Bamba and Macromedia Shockwave in our previous courses. We are now using IBM's new Hot Audio Product. It's Java based and largely platform independent, which will allow more of you to enjoy this offering.
Tens of thousands of you have taken the time to fill out our evaluation forms. You have told us what things you like and what things you think need improvement. We've read them , and we take them seriously. You said you wanted RMI Corba, well here it is, you said you wanted us to eliminate plug-ins that were incompatible with certain platforms, IBM's Hot Audio which is Java-based, needs no plug-in.
To aid performance you have the option of pre-caching the graphics. That will take you a few extra minutes in the beginning of this course, but you will enjoy the increased performance as you take the rest of the course.
Please fill out the evaluation form at the end of the course so that you can help support and guide the future of this program. Your suggestions are what decides what topics we will be presenting in the future.
This free series of courses is being brought to you by the IBM Java Software Group as a commercial-free public service.
When you finish this course go back to the IBM Java Home Page, and try out the JCentral search engine, which will help you find other great Java resources on the web.
On behalf of the IBM Corporation, let me thank you for spending this time with us, we hope you will find it helpful in your future development projects.